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* MisplacedRetribution:
** When the Cheshire Cat trips the Queen of Hearts, she blames Alice for it and nearly has her head as punishment. The Queen also implies beforehand that Alice will lose her head if she (the Queen) loses her temper whether Alice was responsible or not.


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* MisplacedRetribution: When the Cheshire Cat trips the Queen of Hearts, she blames Alice for it and nearly has her head as punishment. The Queen also implies beforehand that Alice will lose her head if she (the Queen) loses her temper whether Alice was responsible or not.

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* MisplacedRetribution: When the Cheshire Cat trips the Queen of Hearts, she blames Alice for it and nearly has her head as punishment. The Queen also implies beforehand that Alice will lose her head if she (the Queen) loses her temper whether Alice was responsible or not.

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When the Cheshire Cat trips the Queen of Hearts, she blames Alice for it and nearly has her head as punishment. The Queen also implies beforehand that Alice will lose her head if she (the Queen) loses her temper whether Alice was responsible or not.
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** The Tulgey Wood encounter after the Mad Tea Party, where Alice encounters a collection of bizarre animals such as birds with mirrors for eyes, a pair of glasses with a beak, sapient vehicle horn birds with duck feet, frogs with either drum for bodies/cymbals for heads, a bird with a cage for a body that is constantly eating two birds that are escaping its loose cage to put them back in again, birds with shovels for heads, birds with hammers for heads, birds with pencils for heads, vultures with umbrellas for bodies, owls with stretching accordion necks, Mome Raths- a pair of different colored legs with a mop of hair with pair of googly eyes were the top of the legs/hair meet, and a dog with a broom for a head/tail. And unlike the previous and succeeding encounters, it is [[DerangedAnimation bizarre imagery without any context to rationalize the unusual even by Wonderland standards of loose logic]] that causes Alice to break down until the Cheshire Cat ironically brings back sense by giving Alice some much-needed context of where to go next.

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* GainaxEnding: Once the Queen gets fed up with Alice after the Chesire Cat eggs her on, Alice runs from her card army, but it then gets gradually more bizarre even by the standards of the story standards where Alice is suddenly running in a Cacus Race with the animals near the beginning of the film with Queen and her cabal, the Mad Hatter, March Hare, the Tweedle Twins, and [[MindScrew the Walrus and Carpenter who up till that moment, only existed in the Twins' story joining in as well as tangible beings]] before she's suddenly running on the tea table, and when she goes back to the ocean, she's

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* GainaxEnding: Once the Queen gets fed up with Alice after the Chesire Cat eggs her on, Alice runs from her card army, but it then gets gradually more bizarre even by the standards of the story standards where Alice is suddenly running in a Cacus Race with the animals near the beginning of the film with Queen and her cabal, the Mad Hatter, March Hare, the Tweedle Twins, and [[MindScrew the Walrus and Carpenter who up till that moment, only existed in the Twins' story joining in as well as tangible beings]] before she's suddenly running on the tea table, and when she goes back to the ocean, she's she encounters the Caterpillar and this leads him puffing up a pink smoke portal, where Alice in slow-motion approaches the door and sees [[MindScrew herself still sleeping]] as the chasing Wonderland residents dissolve around her as it's revealed to be a dream. All of this occurs at a rapid pace compared to the previously gradual pacing of the film up to that point.



%%* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The Queen of Hearts.



* MindScrew: Aside from the obvious, Alice's escape from Wonderland: [[spoiler: the Doorknob shows her outside asleep in her real outdoor environment. She wakes up by dreaming that her dream self is begging her real self to wake up]].

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* MindScrew: Aside from Wonderland is filled with bizarre imagery of deranged characters and unusual creatures, but the obvious, ending is the most deranged. The pacing escalates to a rapid-paced, maddening degree with Alice's escape from Wonderland: [[spoiler: Wonderland, in which the already loose reality begins to fall apart around her as the Walrus and Carpenter- who had previously existed in the Tweedle Twins' story, suddenly appear alongside the residents of Wonderland while the scenery morphs at random from the place to the mountain where another Cacus Race to the mad tea party table to the inside of a giant teacup becoming the ocean from Alice's tears, to a pink smoke portal generated by the Caterpillar as Alice suddenly moves in slow motion towards the door leading to the reveal in which[[spoiler: the Doorknob shows her outside asleep in her real outdoor environment. She wakes up by dreaming that her dream self is begging her real self to wake up]].

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* CoversAlwaysLie: Perhaps not a total lie in a strict visual sense, but a lot of the posters and promotional material for the film would make the denizens of Wonderland out to be much friendlier than they actually are. In reality, most of the Wonderlanders end up quite rude, hostile, or too deranged to be of any help, and Alice's journey is less an enchanting trip through a land of whimsy than it is an endurance test. One old poster goes far enough to show the Queen of Hearts herself smiling and sitting along with Alice at the tea party!

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* CoversAlwaysLie: Perhaps not a total lie in a strict strictly visual sense, but a lot of the posters and promotional material for the film would make the denizens of Wonderland out to be much friendlier than they actually are. In reality, most of the Wonderlanders end up quite rude, hostile, or too deranged to be of any help, and Alice's journey is less an enchanting trip through a land of whimsy than it is an endurance test. One old poster goes far enough to show the Queen of Hearts herself smiling and sitting along with Alice at the tea party!



* DarkerAndEdgier: Except when it's not. This version does have its moments, though, such as the cards that the Queen sentences to decapitation. In the book, the King pardons them. In this movie, though, they don't get any mercy like that.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Except when it's not. This version does have its moments, though, such as Surprisingly despite being a DenserAndWackier addition to the cards that [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney Animated Canon]], the film depicts the events from the story in a darker light. The Queen sentences to decapitation. In instead of having her beheadings being empty gestures pardoned by the book, King, are heavily implied to be legitimately enforced with the King pardons them. In this movie, though, they don't get any mercy like that.King's encouragement, being a much more aggressively insane character that puts Alice in mortal jeopardy.
** Additionally, while there were some helpful and/or at least, sympathetic characters in the original, Wonderland is depicted as a [[WorldOfJerkass world entirely populated by unpleasant and deranged residents with even the animals being unintentionally hindering Alice, causing her to break down emotionally]]. There is also more emphasis on [[DerangedAnimation surreal and bizarre imagery]] than the more oddly whimsical nature of the original story.



* DerangedAnimation: Wonderland being a [[{{Cloudcuckooland}} world where logic is missing]] is filled with surreal and bizarre imagery. Highlights include the Cheshire Cat's unusual manner of disappearing/reappearing/shape-shifting, Alice's altering size moments, and the frenzied ending where all of the characters including the ones exist only in the story told by other characters appear.



%%* FanDisservice: When the Queen of Hearts falls down in her croquet game.



* GainaxEnding: Once the Queen gets fed up with Alice after the Chesire Cat eggs her on, Alice runs from her card army, but it then gets gradually more bizarre even by the standards of the story standards where Alice is suddenly running in a Cacus Race with the animals near the beginning of the film with Queen and her cabal, the Mad Hatter, March Hare, the Tweedle Twins, and [[MindScrew the Walrus and Carpenter who up till that moment, only existed in the Twins' story joining in as well as tangible beings]] before she's suddenly running on the tea table, and when she goes back to the ocean, she's



* GiantsDropletHumansShower: When Alice eats a cookie that makes her grow big enough to fill the entire room, she begins crying as she laments about not being able to go home. The first of her tears is enough to splatter the Doorknob before the rest of them flood the room. From the Doorknob's view, Alice's tears are basically a sudden rainstorm and flood that almost drown him.

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* GiantsDropletHumansShower: When Alice eats a cookie that makes her grow big enough to fill the entire room, she begins crying as she laments about not of being able unable to go home. The first of her tears is enough to splatter the Doorknob before the rest of them flood the room. From the Doorknob's view, Alice's tears are basically a sudden rainstorm and flood that almost drown him.



%%* IAmSong: Does "I'm Late" count?
%%** "[[CutSong I'm Odd]]" is a closer example.
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* CasuallyPowerfulGiant: Whenever Alice consumes something that causes her to grow into a giant, she is able to send Bill the lizard flying with just a sneeze or casually grab a dozen of the Queen of hearts man-sized card soldiers in her hand all while her actions remain petite and feminine.

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* CasuallyPowerfulGiant: Whenever Alice consumes something that causes her to grow into a giant, she is able to flood a room just by crying, send Bill the lizard flying with just a sneeze or casually grab a dozen of the Queen of hearts man-sized card soldiers in her hand all while her actions remain petite and feminine.
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* CasuallyPowerfulGiant: Whenever Alice consumes something that causes her to into a giant, she is able to send Bill the lizard flying with just a sneeze or casually grab a dozen of the Queen of hearts man-sized card soldiers in her hand all while her actions remain petite and feminine.

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* CasuallyPowerfulGiant: Whenever Alice consumes something that causes her to grow into a giant, she is able to send Bill the lizard flying with just a sneeze or casually grab a dozen of the Queen of hearts man-sized card soldiers in her hand all while her actions remain petite and feminine.
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* CasuallyPowerfulGiant: Whenever Alice consumes something that causes her to into a giant, she is able to send Bill the lizard flying with just a sneeze or casually grab a dozen of the Queen of hearts man-sized card soldiers in her hand all while her actions remain petite and feminine.
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: A minor example when Alice grows to giant size in the forest: it may seem a stretch that the bird would mistake her for a serpent, since she looks nothing like one. In the original book, it was her ''neck'' that had grown out of proportion, which makes the mistake more believable.

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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: AdaptationExplanationExtrication: A minor example when Alice grows to giant size in the forest: it may seem a stretch that the bird would mistake her for a serpent, since she looks nothing like one. In the original book, it was her ''neck'' that had grown out of proportion, which makes the mistake more believable.
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* AnAesop: Logic and reason exist for a purpose. Without them, the world would be a very confusing and frustrating place. Also, being overtly curious is a bad thing and can get you in trouble.

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* InsaneTrollLogic: The Bird in the Tree comes to the conclusion that Alice must be a serpent because she eats eggs.
** Not to mention the Mad Hatter deducing a pocketwatch to be two days slow, the flowers concluding that since Alice is not a flower that she must be a weed, "nothing whatever" being considered a crucial piece of testimony... Really, all of Wonderland runs on this.

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* InsaneTrollLogic: Really, all of Wonderland runs on this.
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The Bird in the Tree comes to the conclusion that Alice must be a serpent because she eats eggs.
** Not to mention the The Mad Hatter deducing a deduces the White Rabbit is late because his pocketwatch to be is two days slow, the slow.
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flowers concluding conclude that since Alice is not a flower that she must be a weed, "nothing weed.
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whatever" being is considered a crucial piece of testimony... Really, all of Wonderland runs on this.testimony.



* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: From the "Painting the Roses Red" song:
-->'''2 of clubs:''' Not pink!\\
'''3 of clubs:''' Not green!\\
'''Alice:''' Not aquamarine!
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** Heck, the King himself, who's gone from pardoning executions to openly supporting them! Aside from stopping the first instance of Alice's execution and deciding to have a trial first.

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** Heck, the King himself, who's gone from pardoning executions to openly supporting them! them![[note]]In the book, he does threaten the Hatter with the possibility of execution when he's growing impatient during the trial, but that's all.[[/note]] Aside from stopping the first instance of Alice's execution and deciding to have a trial first.
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* VocalRangeExceeded: At Alice's solo in "All in the Golden Afternoon", she blows the high note, so the rest of the flowers finish for her. Kathryn Beaumont has acknowledged that she is not a great singer.
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* MisplacedRetribution: When the Cheshire Cat trips the Queen of Hearts, she blames Alice for it and nearly has her head as punishment.

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* MisplacedRetribution: When the Cheshire Cat trips the Queen of Hearts, she blames Alice for it and nearly has her head as punishment. The Queen also implies beforehand that Alice will lose her head if she (the Queen) loses her temper whether Alice was responsible or not.
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Number 13 in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, this [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1951]] adaptation of ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass'' was a long time coming. Creator/WaltDisney was a lifelong fan of the book and wanted to make it a decade earlier, but another production of the story was being produced elsewhere at the time, prompting the studio to shelve it for a while. Then World War II happened and they lost a lot of their budget on war films. Some years of DevelopmentHell turned the film into a more wacky, comedic, and very odd entry in the Disney canon.

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Number 13 in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, this [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1951]] adaptation of ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass'' was a long time coming. Creator/WaltDisney was a lifelong fan of the book and wanted to make it a decade earlier, but another production of the story was being produced elsewhere at the time, prompting the studio to shelve it for a while. Then World War II UsefulNotes/WorldWarII happened and they lost a lot of their budget on war films. Some years of DevelopmentHell turned the film into a more wacky, comedic, and very odd entry in the Disney canon.

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Alice does this twice.

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Alice does this twice.thrice:



** The second is when she sneaks away from the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, calling their tea party the stupidest she's ever been to in her life.
* SecondFaceSmoke: The Caterpillar does this to Alice.

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** The second time is when she sneaks leaves the Caterpillar in disgust after he rudely blows too much smoke rings in her face. He tries to call her back claiming that he has something important to say, but Alice isn't having any more of his rudeness and continues to venture away from him. Though she reconsiders shortly afterwards and returns to the Caterpillar, but remains stern when she comes back.
** The third time is when she angrily leaves
the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, calling their tea party the stupidest she's ever been to in her life.
life. This is what prompts her to make her decision to abandon her pursuit of looking for the White Rabbit and go home instead after getting annoyed with all the nonsense and rudeness being thrown at her.
--->'''Alice''': Well, I've had enough nonsense! I'm going home! Straight home!
* SecondFaceSmoke: The Caterpillar does this to Alice.Alice thrice, which causes her to leave as she is disgusted with his rudeness. He does it again to Alice when she desperately asks for his help as she is being chased by the Queen of Hearts.
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-->'''Walrus:''' [[CatchPhrase The time has come!]]

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-->'''Walrus:''' [[CatchPhrase [[CharacterCatchphrase The time has come!]]
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* ExactWords: The Mad Hatter and Alice in the climax when she's trying to escape Wonderland. The insist she must join them in a cup of tea. They mean this by literally shoving her into a giant cup of tea.
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* SentencedWithoutTrial: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Queen of Hearts]] is no stranger to ordering decapitations left and right for any sorry person who dares trigger her temper. After being framed by the Cheshire Cat for humiliating Her Highness during the croquet game, Alice is almost subject to decapitation herself. Thankfully, the King of Hearts interjects on her behalf and convinces his wife to give her a fair trial. However, at the trial, the Queen is ready to give the girl her sentence. When Alice tries to explain that she must have a verdict first, the Queen shouts, "Sentence, first! Verdict, afterward." Again, the King saves Alice's neck (and her head) by convincing the Queen to see some witnesses before carrying out the sentence.
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* SentencedWithoutTrial: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Queen of Hearts]] is no stranger to ordering decapitations left and right for any sorry person who dares trigger her temper. After being framed by the Cheshire Cat for humiliating Her Highness during the croquet game, Alice is almost subject to decapitation herself. Thankfully, the King of Hearts interjects on her behalf and convinces his wife to give her a fair trial. However, at the trial, the Queen is ready to give the girl her sentence. When Alice tries to explain that she must have a verdict first, the Queen shouts, "Sentence, first! Verdict, afterward." Again, the King saves Alice's neck (and her head) by convincing the Queen to see some witnesses before carrying out the sentence.
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--''Alice in Wonderland\\

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--''Alice -->''Alice in Wonderland\\
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* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: ''"Ser'''PENT'''! Ser'''PEEEEEEEENT'''!"''

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* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: ''"Ser'''PENT'''! Ser'''PEEEEEEEENT'''!"''
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* CrashingDreams: Toward the end, when the Queen of Hearts and everyone else is chasing her, Alice shouts at herself through the keyhole of the talking door to wake up. Her voice dissolves into the voice of her sister trying to wake her.
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* DangledByAGiant: When a currently giant Alice tries to pluck a carrot from a garden to shrink herself, she grabs the White Rabbit as well.
-->Alice: I'm sorry, but I must eat something!
-->White Rabbit: Not me, you barbarian!

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* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: ''"Ser'''PENT'''! Ser'''PEEEEEEEENT'''!''

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* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: ''"Ser'''PENT'''! Ser'''PEEEEEEEENT'''!''Ser'''PEEEEEEEENT'''!"''


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* WeedingOutImperfections: Parodied when the talking flowers realize that Alice is not a flower, and immediately declare that she is a "common weed" and kick her out of the garden, declaring, "We don't want weeds in our bed!"
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