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** [[DragonsAreDemonic The Jabberwock]], it is a red-eyed, nightmarish creature that will sometimes appear [[MoodWhiplahs out of nowhere, jarringly bringing the light-hearted tone of a scene to a halt]] and even [[HeroKiller pushing Humpty Dumpty off the wall with the heavily implied notion it killed him, given he doesn't show up later]].

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** [[DragonsAreDemonic The Jabberwock]], it is a red-eyed, nightmarish creature that will sometimes appear [[MoodWhiplahs [[MoodWhiplash out of nowhere, nowhere in any scene, jarringly bringing the light-hearted tone of a scene to a halt]] and even [[HeroKiller pushing Humpty Dumpty off the wall with the heavily implied notion it killed him, given he doesn't show up later]].

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* Imagine living under a legal system which is based entirely on the whims of a bad tempered JerkAss who can [[DisproportionateRetribution have a person beheaded for even the slightest annoyance.]] And she annoys easily. While the King pardons all of the Queen's victims, he always has to do it in secret and we don't know how long it's going to last...

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* Imagine living under a legal system which is based entirely on the whims of a bad tempered bad-tempered JerkAss who can [[DisproportionateRetribution have a person beheaded for even the slightest annoyance.]] And she annoys easily. While the King pardons all of the Queen's victims, he always has to do it in secret and we don't know how long it's going to last...



* Dreamchild- the [[Creator/Jim Henson Jim Henson]] depiction of the Wonderland characters from the lens of an aged Alice depicts them as [[UncannyValley uncomfortably hyper-realistic and all too human while being warped exaggerations of their counterparts]]. The Mock Turtle's cow head resembles a warped human head designed to look like a cow; the March Hare now has broken teeth along with looking like [[HellRaisingHare a demented hare]]; The Mad Hatter resembles a demonic version of the already creepy Liddel illustration; and the Caterpillar looks eerie as an enlarged caterpillar with a wizened old man face with elongated arms.
* Some of the animal characters in the 1972 version with Fiona Fullerton look pretty unnatural as well.

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* Dreamchild- the [[Creator/Jim Henson Jim Henson]] depiction of the Wonderland characters from the lens of an aged Alice depicts them as [[UncannyValley uncomfortably hyper-realistic and all too human while being warped exaggerations of their counterparts]]. The Mock Turtle's cow head resembles a warped human head designed to look like a cow; the March Hare now has broken teeth along with looking like [[HellRaisingHare [[HairRaisingHare a demented hare]]; The Mad Hatter resembles a demonic version of the already creepy Liddel illustration; and the Caterpillar looks eerie as an enlarged caterpillar with a wizened old man face with elongated arms.
* Some of the animal characters in the 1972 version with Fiona Fullerton look pretty unnatural as well.unnatural, having costumes are resemble the animals accurately yet anthropomorphic enough to look a little too human-like.
** The Crow in this iteration, is an entirely blackened winged creature of gigantic size except for its piercing yellow eyes.



** [[DragonsAreDemonic The Jabberwock]]

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** [[DragonsAreDemonic The Jabberwock]]Jabberwock]], it is a red-eyed, nightmarish creature that will sometimes appear [[MoodWhiplahs out of nowhere, jarringly bringing the light-hearted tone of a scene to a halt]] and even [[HeroKiller pushing Humpty Dumpty off the wall with the heavily implied notion it killed him, given he doesn't show up later]].
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* Dreamchild.

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* Dreamchild.Dreamchild- the [[Creator/Jim Henson Jim Henson]] depiction of the Wonderland characters from the lens of an aged Alice depicts them as [[UncannyValley uncomfortably hyper-realistic and all too human while being warped exaggerations of their counterparts]]. The Mock Turtle's cow head resembles a warped human head designed to look like a cow; the March Hare now has broken teeth along with looking like [[HellRaisingHare a demented hare]]; The Mad Hatter resembles a demonic version of the already creepy Liddel illustration; and the Caterpillar looks eerie as an enlarged caterpillar with a wizened old man face with elongated arms.



** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgIBGjXIoEs The White Queen turning into a sheep]]. Ironically, in the original book, the White Queen randomly turning into a sheep was [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments a funny moment]]. The movie's director, on the other hand, turned it into a unexpectedly [[NightmareFace scary-looking]] [[HellIsThatNoise monster]].

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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgIBGjXIoEs The White Queen turning into a sheep]]. Ironically, in the original book, the White Queen randomly turning into a sheep was [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments a funny moment]]. The movie's director, on the other hand, turned it into a an unexpectedly [[NightmareFace scary-looking]] [[HellIsThatNoise monster]].

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** The poem Humpty recites for Alice comes off as very ominous. He relates how he sent a message to the fish asking them to do something. The fish replied that they could not, and Humpty responded with what seems to be a threat. When they try his patience, he takes a [[NoodleImplements kettle (and later a corkscrew) "fit for the deed I had to do"]], fills the kettle while his heart pounds in his chest and heads off to the home of the fish. [[NothingIsScarier Three times, verses abruptly cut off (including the final line where Humpty is desperately trying to open the door) and absolutely no clarification is given as to what Humpty's request to the fish is, why it is so important to him, and what he plans to do when he gets to them.]]
--->''I sent to them again to say''
--->''"It will be better to obey."''
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* Creator/JanSvankmajer's 1988 adaptation, especially the [[HairRaisingHare White Rabbit]].

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* Creator/JanSvankmajer's 1988 adaptation, especially the undead taxidermied [[HairRaisingHare White Rabbit]].
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* [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Curious_Alice_%281971%29.webm This]] [[DrugsAreBad anti-Drug PSA]] from 1971, entitled ''Curious Alice'', that ironically is so [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs bizarre & creepy]] that it seems the ''producers'' were on drugs when they made it. ScareEmStraight, indeed.

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* [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Curious_Alice_%281971%29.webm This]] [[DrugsAreBad anti-Drug PSA]] from 1971, entitled ''Curious Alice'', that ironically is so [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs bizarre & creepy]] creepy that it seems the ''producers'' were on drugs when they made it. ScareEmStraight, indeed.
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%% * '' 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe''. Spine-chilling.
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* '' 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe''. Spine-chilling.

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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgIBGjXIoEs The White Queen turning into a sheep]]. Ironically, in the original book, the White Queen randomly turning into a sheep was [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments a funny moment]]. The movie's director, on the other hand, turned it into a [[SurpriseCreepy unexpectedly]] [[NightmareFace scary-looking]] [[HellIsThatNoise monster]].

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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgIBGjXIoEs The White Queen turning into a sheep]]. Ironically, in the original book, the White Queen randomly turning into a sheep was [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments a funny moment]]. The movie's director, on the other hand, turned it into a [[SurpriseCreepy unexpectedly]] unexpectedly [[NightmareFace scary-looking]] [[HellIsThatNoise monster]].
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The linked image was the page image, so redundant
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* The Jabberwocky illustration in the original book. [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Jabberwocky.jpg/399px-Jabberwocky.jpg Enjoy.]]

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* The page's image is the Jabberwocky illustration in the original book. [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Jabberwocky.jpg/399px-Jabberwocky.jpg Enjoy.]]book, a horrific-looking dragon with [[CreepyLongFingers long hairy fingers]] and rat-like buck teeth.
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process


* The introduction to the Tweedles. When Alice comes across them, they just ''stand'' there, staring at her, [[ParanoiaFuel so still and quiet that she mistakes them for mannequins.]] They do this for several minutes as she gets close them enough to read their names on their collars and contemplate the nursery rhyme. Then they suddenly start to talk and move. In real life, that would easily be a JumpScare. Then there's their [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/88/54/72/88547243087266040921c13ab3b91d05.jpg appearances,]] which can seem deep in the UncannyValley to some, what with their little boy clothes and enlarged, caricature-like faces.

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* The introduction to the Tweedles. When Alice comes across them, they just ''stand'' there, staring at her, [[ParanoiaFuel so still and quiet that she mistakes them for mannequins.]] They do this for several minutes as she gets close them enough to read their names on their collars and contemplate the nursery rhyme. Then they suddenly start to talk and move. In real life, that would easily be a JumpScare. Then there's their [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/88/54/72/88547243087266040921c13ab3b91d05.jpg appearances,]] which can seem deep in the UncannyValley creepy to some, what with their little boy clothes and enlarged, caricature-like faces.
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* Many of Lou Bunin's stop-motion puppet characters in the 1949 version are [[UncannyValley grotesque and frightening]] to look at.

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* Humpty-Dumpty tells Alice he thinks she should have stopped ageing when she reached seven. She objects that one cannot prevent oneself from ageing, and he replies that she ''could'' have stopped ageing at seven if only she'd had "[[DeathOfAChild proper assistance]]"...
** And since this is AllJustADream, and thus Humpty-Dumpty is a projection of Alice's psyche, [[FridgeHorror it may say something]] [[ICannotSelfTerminate about Alice's]] [[DeathSeeker mental state]]. The fact that she's ''not even eight years old'' makes it even worse.
** Then there's the crash that shakes the forest just after Alice leaves Humpty behind, implying his [[ItWasHisSled inevitable]] fall off the wall. We know from the nursery rhyme that the White King's soldiers won't succeed in repairing Humpty – in short, this means he dies just seconds after his conversation with Alice ends.

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* Humpty-Dumpty tells Alice he thinks she should have stopped ageing when she reached seven. She objects that one cannot prevent oneself from ageing, and he replies that she ''could'' have stopped ageing at seven if only she'd had "[[DeathOfAChild proper assistance]]"... \n** And since this is AllJustADream, and thus Humpty-Dumpty is a projection of Alice's psyche, [[FridgeHorror it may say something]] [[ICannotSelfTerminate about Alice's]] [[DeathSeeker mental state]]. The fact that she's ''not even eight years old'' makes it even worse.\n** Then there's the crash that shakes the forest just after Alice leaves Humpty behind, implying his [[ItWasHisSled inevitable]] fall off the wall. We know from the nursery rhyme that the White King's soldiers won't succeed in repairing Humpty – in short, this means he dies just seconds after his conversation with Alice ends.
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\n** Then there's the crash that shakes the forest just after Alice leaves Humpty behind, implying his [[ItWasHisSled inevitable]] fall off the wall. We know from the nursery rhyme that the White King's soldiers won't succeed in repairing Humpty – in short, this means he dies just seconds after his conversation with Alice ends.
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* The Duchess's Song which includes lyrics of "shaking a baby every time it sneezes"

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* Falling all the way down, down, [[OverlyLongGag and down...]]

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* Falling all the way down, down, [[OverlyLongGag [[IFellForHours and down...]]
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* The Jabberwocky illustration in the original book. [[http://www.waxdog.com/jabberwocky/pics.html Enjoy.]]

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* ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and its sequel, ''Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'', were chock-full of nightmarish situations and bizarre mental imagery. The fact that the woodcut illustrations portrayed most of the human characters as hideously ugly with grotesquely large heads didn't help much, either. Examples include:

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* ''"If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out-- bang!--just like a candle!"'' ExistentialHorror.
* '' 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogroves, and the mome raths outgrabe''. Spine-chilling.

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* ''"If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out-- bang!--just like a candle!"'' ExistentialHorror.
ExistentialHorror. This is also a CallBack to the first book, where Alice contemplates the same thing happening to her if she continued shrinking.
* '' 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogroves, boogroves, and the mome raths outgrabe''. Spine-chilling.
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* ''"If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out-- bang!--just like a candle!"'' Existential terror.

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* ''"If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out-- bang!--just like a candle!"'' Existential terror.ExistentialHorror.



* Humpty-Dumpty tells Alice he thinks she should have stopped ageing when she reached seven. She objects that one cannot prevent oneself from ageing, and he replies that she ''could'' have stopped ageing at seven if only she'd had "[[WouldHurtAChild proper]] [[DeathTropes assistance]]"...

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* Humpty-Dumpty tells Alice he thinks she should have stopped ageing when she reached seven. She objects that one cannot prevent oneself from ageing, and he replies that she ''could'' have stopped ageing at seven if only she'd had "[[WouldHurtAChild proper]] [[DeathTropes "[[DeathOfAChild proper assistance]]"...
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** And since this is AllJustADream, and thus Humpty-Dumpty is a projection of Alice's psyche, [[FridgeHorror it may say something]] [[DespairEventHorizon about Alice's]] [[DeathSeeker mental state]]. The fact that she's ''not even eight years old'' makes it even worse.


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** And since this is AllJustADream, and thus Humpty-Dumpty is a projection of Alice's psyche, [[FridgeHorror it may say something]] [[DespairEventHorizon about Alice's]] [[DrivenToSuicide mental state]]. The fact that she's ''not even eight years old'' makes it even worse.


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** And since this is AllJustADream, and thus Humpty-Dumpty is a projection of Alice's psyche, [[FridgeHorror it may say something]] [[DespairEventHorizon about Alice's]] [[DrivenToSuicide [[DeathSeeker mental state]]. The fact that she's ''not even eight years old'' makes it even worse.

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** And since this is AllJustADream, and thus Humpty-Dumpty is a projection of Alice's psyche, [[FridgeHorror it may say something]] [[DespaieEventHorizon about Alice's]] [[DrivenToSuicide mental state]]. The fact that she's ''not even eight years old'' makes it even worse.


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** And since this is AllJustADream, and thus Humpty-Dumpty is a projection of Alice's psyche, [[FridgeHorror it may say something]] [[DespaieEventHorizon [[DespairEventHorizon about Alice's]] [[DrivenToSuicide mental state]]. The fact that she's ''not even eight years old'' makes it even worse.

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