I wanted you.
Trick or Alice (Japanese:トリック・オア・アリス) is an 18+ otome game released on August 4, 2012, for Windows. The heroine (default name: Minase Arisa) seems to live an carefree life as an Ordinary High-School Student with her brother, Shizuku, until on the night of her birthday, she is suddenly transported to a bizarre place similar to the Wonderland of Lewis Carroll's tale. Its inhabitants, who have an eerie resemblance to people she knows in her previous life, claim that she is their 'Alice'.Distraught and wanting to return as soon as possible, she searches for the real Alice, while the inhabitants of this Wonderland have other plans for her...
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Trick or Alice provides examples of the following tropes:
- Adaptational Attractiveness: The Queen of Hearts here is a attractive black-haired woman instead of the caricaturesque representation found in most media.
- Adaptational Villainy: Unlike in the original tale, the Queen's executions are actually carried out, and she has a sadistic taste for forcing Wonderland's inhabitants to watch the executions, while taunting and gloating the witnesses about it. This results in her Karmic Death through her favorite method of execution in the "Alice in the Land of Despair" bad ending.
- All Men Are Perverts: From the flamboyant Cheshire to the stoic Light, they will eventually lift Arisa's skirt to see if 'It's all Alice'
- Anguished Declaration of Love: In his school good ending, when the Black Rabbit is destroying his heart and the world created from it piece by piece, Arisa calls out Shadow for being self-centered and not thinking about her wishes. Shadow responds by tearfully saying he loves Arisa and asks what she thinks of him.Arisa eagerly kisses him and says she wants to be with him forever. Doubles as I Want My Beloved to Be Happy and a Heartfelt Apology.
- Bitch Slap: When a boy gets way too close to her, Arisa is not afraid of giving them a slap in the face.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Exaggerated with Shadow/Tooya. Behind the lovely, helpful and conforting act, lies a psychotic, perverted and vicious sadist, willing to get rid of anyone if it means he can succeed in his objective, but at the same time smart and manipulative enough to put on a Mask of Sanity for the others and be often a step ahead with his plans to get what he wants, which is, having Arisa all for himself.
- Camp Straight: Nao/Cheshire and Tooya/Shadow. The former constantly acts in a flamboyant manner no matter the conversation, hardly takes anything seriously, clearly enjoys the attention his fangirls give him and refuses to stop doing pick-up lines filled with sexual innuendo to Arisa, while the latter is a beautiful and friendly boy with effeminate mannerisms interested in baking sweets that has, above all else a unhinged attraction to Arisa.
- Cast Full of Pretty Boys: It's a eroge for girls, so this is a certainty.
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: As part of their Identical Twin ID Tag, Shadow's beret is white, while Light's beret is black, contradicting their names.
- Cock Fight: The routes of the Kamijou twins end having this, through in Tooya/Shadow's route this rivalry is one-sided and only a threat to his relationship with Arisa in his head.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: The Kamijou twins. It's lampshaded multiple times by Arisa.
- Dude, She's Like in a Coma: Courtesy of Shadow Slipping a Mickey, Arisa wakes up in the middle of this situation.
- Eroge: A rare non-BL one aimed at a female audience. A large portion of the CG's are sex scenes, consensual or not.
- Fetishized Abuser: Tooya/Shadow's route has shades of this. From his disrespect of Arisa's personal space, (That unlike Cheshire or Round, it's NOT Played for Laughs, argueable molestation by using cream on her finger as a excuse to lick and suck on it , to outright rape, in most works this would be crossing the
Moral Event Horizon, but in spite of everything, Arisa cannot help but comment about how beautiful his face is, and will seek to confort him in his outbursts. - Heroic Sacrifice: In one of his bad endings, Round traps Chrono in his dream world so he won't cause trouble anymore, at the cost of sleeping forever.
- Knight of Cerebus: While the game is definitively not a Sugar Bowl in spite of the art style, the routes where Shadow plays a important role will have a darker and more dramatic tone that stands out from the others.
- Making Love in All the Wrong Places: In his route, Light and Arisa were so Overcome with Desire that they ended having sex at the library.
- Mr. Fanservice: Pretty much all male characters.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Shadow mantains his cheerful demanor even while explaining how he thought the events that led to Jack's execution were interesting.
- Not Good with Rejection: Shizuku/Black Rabbit in Nao/Cheshire's route. In the Wonderland good ending he is almost Driven to Suicide because of it, but gets better. on the School Garden path however, he attempts to Murder the Hypotenuse twice, ends commiting murder-suicide in a bad ending because Arisa refuses to accept him after he erases Cheshire through the book, and on the good ending he punches the wall in rage multiple times to the point his hand bleeds when his attempt fails, before killing himself and destroying Wonderland while Arisa and Cheshire escape because in his own words, he cannot accept Arisa being happy with another man.
- Sissy Villain: Shadow is said to look like a girl multiple times, does effeminate gestures and poses, wears an outfit with lots of frills, speaks politely to everyone he sees, is interested in baking sweets, flowers and has a higher pitched voice than the other characters. And is an utterly deranged Yandere and manipulator with no restrants when trying to take Arisa for himself. Downplayed when he is having a Villainous Breakdown, since when this happens, his voice gets deeper.
- Spree Killer: In the "Alice in the Land of Despair" bad ending, Arisa, reaching the Despair Event Horizon after Cheshire gets decapitated while the Queen of Hearts gloats about it, grabs a halberd and starts decapitating people on a rampage through Wonderland, beginning with the Queen and her guards.
- Large Ham: Jack, although it's Justified since he is desperately trying to escape his execution.
- Tareme Eyes: Arisa and Ren/Round have them, emphasizing the former's sweet personality and the latter's innocence.
- The Worf Effect: Chrono suffers this in Shadow's route.
- Twin Threesome Fantasy:Played for Drama in the "Black birdcage" bad ending, when Tooya/Shadow uses the real world book to brainwash his brother into having sex with Arisa together on the classroom.
- Vocal Dissonance: In spite of Asagi/Light being Tooya/Shadow's identical twin, he has the deepest voice among the main cast.
