History Literature / TheLookingGlassWars

''The Looking-Glass Wars'' is a trilogy of novels by Frank Beddor retelling the story of ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', based on the premise that Alice Liddel, the real-life inspiration for the literary Alice, was in fact Alyss Heart, the true Queen of Wonderland, who had been exiled to our world after her Aunt Redd staged a coup.

* RatedMForManly: Boarderland is shown to have little adages about manliness inscribed on many of its natural features on the orders of King Arch.

* NotQuiteTheRightThing: [[FriendToAllChildren Reverend Charles Dodgson]] acted as TheConfidant to a desperately lonely young girl, and became one of her dearest friends after being taken by her stories and promising to publish them in a book. Said book, ‘’Alice’s Adventures Underground,’’ [[GoneHorriblyRight became successful beyond his wildest dreams]], and ensured that the entire world would remember Alice Liddell’s fantastical tale. But [[InnocentlyInsensitive what he didn’t understand]] was that ‘’Alyss’’ hadn’t been telling him the stories she had invented, but the history of her life and her nation, and she had been counting on him to prove her honesty before [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer everyone who had doubted her]]. She [[ThisIsUnforgiveable didn’t take kindly]] to her tale of exile and bloody coups being twisted into the most famous tale of [[TheWonderland childish nonsense]] in the world.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Madigan, like all Hatters, is a very good fighter. And his uniform contains more knives than a cutlery convention. [[NiceHat Including his hat.]]

* NiceHat: Hatter Madigan is a member of the Millinery, where one of their biggest rules is that every member have one hat, and one hat only. It just so happens that said hat turns into a bladed boomerang disc.

* ActionGirl: Nearly every single female in this series. Most notably Alyss and Homburg Molly.
* AliceAllusion: [[IncrediblyLamePun Alyss's alyusion.]]

* BloodierAndGorier: When Redd says "off with thier heads," she ''means'' it.

* CatsAreMean: The Cat.

* CuteBruiser: Homburg Molly.

* DarkActionGirl: Redd and Siren, most definitely.

* {{Determinator}}: Hatter again.
* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler: Hatter Madigan, unknowingly, to Homburg Molly]]

* CuteKitten: A trope the Cat uses to his advantage.

* LittleMissBadass: Homburg Molly.

* MindScrew: The Looking Glass Maze.

* WickedCultured: Jack of Diamonds.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain / YourCostumeNeedsWork: In "Arch Enemy," Redd tries to return to her old mountain stronghold... only to discover it's been turned into a tourist attraction whose proceeds go toward promoting the principles of White Imagination. And while she ''did'' use a piece of cloth to disguise herself, the man in the ticket booth fails to realize who she is even after she balks at having to pay "to get into [her] own home," and amusingly thinks she's pretending to be herself ("You do play the part, don't you?").

* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler: Hatter Madigan to Homburg Molly]]

* GratuitousPrincess: Alice the real-life little girl who inspired "Alice In Wonderland" was in fact the princess of the ''real'' Wonderland.

* {{Mordor}}: Mount Isolation.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Alice the real-life little girl who inspired "Alice In Wonderland" was in fact the princess of the ''real'' Wonderland.

* EvilAlbino: The evil counterpart to Bibwit Harte, Vollrath.
* HeroicAlbino: Bibwit Harte.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Beddor is this when it comes to this series. His blurbs about it have a tendency to insult the crap out of Lewis Carroll.