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{{trope}}
[[File:-Alice 7404.jpg|link=Shin Megami Tensei|frame|[[Shin Megami Tensei|"Could you please...]] [[Signature Move|die for me..?]]"]]
''[[Alice in Wonderland|Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' is a pretty well-known work: it can be associated with [[Trapped in Another World|world-crossing fantasy]], [[THC Theater|drug imagery]], [[Elegant Gothic Lolita|lolita fashion]] and other aspects of Victorian England, political satire, and who knows what else. No wonder it shows up a lot in anime, shock horror (it's a frequent target of [[Grimmification]], usually with lots of blood), and emo teen novels. (You know the kind—usually involving [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires]], eating disorders, or [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs|vampires with eating disorders]].)
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The name "Alice", when used in a reference to ''Alice in Wonderland'', therefore tends to be used for fantastical, ethereal characters or concepts. Especially when most of the cast is Japanese, and that goes double if her last name is a variation on Carroll or Liddell. Dolls are also often involved, presumably by their association with the Victorian era.
Other frequent references to ''Alice in Wonderland'' include magical white rabbits, rabbit-holes,
Adaptations of ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' are not part of this trope. [[Stock Shout-Outs|Allusions, however, are.]]
Note that
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Alice McCoy, the mysterious, possibly dead [[Deus Ex Machina]] of ''[[Digimon Tamers]]''. She's also a blonde gothloli, for extra points. Writer Chiaki J. Konaka favours this trope.
* In ''[[Gakuen Alice]]'', the gift that gives people supernatural powers is called Alice. This is deliberately supposed to invoke ''Alice in Wonderland'', as the currency is called "rabbits" and the main character is trapped at a [[Wizarding School]] chasing someone who's evading her.
* Fujisaki Arisu of ''[[
* The Alice Game from ''[[Rozen Maiden]]'', the [[There Can Be Only One|deadly tournament]] and reason for being of eight beautifully made [[Living Toys|Victorian dolls]]. Not to mention they are guided by a white rabbit demon in a tuxedo. There's also lots of [[Suck My Rose|roses]] and [[Spot of Tea|tea parties]].
* ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' has a rabbit character named Alice along with some other ''Alice in Wonderland''-related imagery.
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* Another Studio CLAMP story, ''[[Miyuki-chan in Wonderland]]'', has Miyuki live through an [[ecchi]] version of the ''Alice in Wonderland'' and ''Alice Through the Looking-Glass'' stories.
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* The main character in ''Lullaby'' is named Alice, and dresses as you might expect. The series begins with her parents dying in a car accident after swerving to avoid a white rabbit in the road.
** ''Lullaby'' somewhat blurs the line between allusion and adaptation though due to its crossover nature.
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* Alice is the name of a villain in [[Greg Rucka]]'s ''[[Batwoman]]'' run, who speaks almost entirely in quotes from Lewis Carroll's Alice stories.
* Another Batfamily rogue counts as an inversion. The Mad Hatter is obsessed with finding "his" Alice, who likely isn't much more than a figment of his insane imaginings.
** There's also the cousins Tweedledee and Tweedledum. In fact, Batman seems to have a large amount of Lewis
** There's also the Teen Titans villainess Cheshire.
* [[Marvel Comics]] has its own Lewis
* A minor sympathetic villain in the [[Astro City]] comic calls himself "The Mock Turtle" and is a huge fan of Carroll's novels.
* [[Doctor Strange]]'s mystical ally Agamotto appears to him as a giant caterpillar on an equally-large mushroom, smoking a hookah. Justified, since Agamotto assumes [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]] out of Strange's memories of ''Alice in Wonderland''.
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
* The ''[[Resident Evil (film)|Resident Evil]]'' movies' main character is named Alice, and in the first film there's a supercomputer called the Red Queen with a little girl as its avatar.
* In ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'', Alice is a [[Deceptively-Human Robots|Deceptively Human Robot]]. With some degree of naughty tentacles.<ref>(but she's got nothing on Soundwave)</ref> In the adaptations, it's stated that she scanned her disguise from an ''Alice in Wonderland'' animatronic.
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* ''The Sight'', stars Andrew McCarthy as Michael [[Lewis Carroll]], an architect who ends up following a child murderer across London with the help of the dead. There are a lot of Alice references, such as Lewis being hired to work on the Hatter's Hotel and Alice being the name of one of the victims.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* Alice Samara of Michelle Latiolais' ''A Proper Knowledge'' is known for her intriguingly unconventional floral sculptures and becomes the [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]] for Luke, the brooding male protagonist.
* [[Neil Gaiman|Neil Gaiman's]] short story ''Keepsakes and Treasures'', as well as ''The Monarch of the Glade'' contains a ''Mr.'' Alice.
* French-Canadian horror novel ''[[Aliss]]'' by Patrick Sénécal is a very dark, gory and sexually explicit retelling of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''. Wonderland is a strange neigborhood in Montreal, the white rabbit is a ashamed pedophiliac based on Lewis Carroll, the Red Queen is a sadistic bordello owner and the Cheshire Cat is smiling junkie. Yeesh.
** The Mad Hatter and the March Hare are lovers, their names are Bone and Chair ("Bone" is from the english and "Chair" is French from "Flesh" and they kill and dissect people to prove that humans have no souls.) The Knave of Heart is Alice's lover (at least, from her point of view.) The Catterpillar (called "Verrue" which mean "Wart") is a drug addict junkie who think that he'll became a butterfly one day. (Even if he's human like all the others characters.) The Duchess and the White Queen are fused into one character who's name is Andromaque; she's also a a bordello owner but she's nicer and more classy than the Red Queen... And she always talk in
* In ''Girl in the Shadows'' by VC Andrews, the protagonist was named Alice in the hope that she would one day "fall into a Wonderland" and escape the fate of her mother, who is in a mental institution.
* ''[[Go Ask Alice]]''
* "Never Seen By Waking Eyes" and "The Vision of a Vanished Good" by [[Stephen Dedman]] feature an eight-year-old girl named Alice... who's been eight years old long enough to have known Lewis Carroll personally.
* In ''[[Jane of Lantern Hill]]'' by [[L. M. Montgomery]], Jane explicitly tried sitting before mirrors in hopes she could emulate Alice. She finally stopped when accused of doing it for vanity.
* Alice DeRaey, the protagonist on the appropriately-titled ''[[This Is Wonderland]]'', which also started its opening credits with Lewis Caroll's poem "You Are Old, Father William". Other characters included a [[Stepford Smiler]] with a heart-motif
▲* Alice DeRaey, the protagonist on the appropriately-titled ''[[This Is Wonderland]]'', which also started its opening credits with Lewis Caroll's poem "You Are Old, Father William". Other characters included a [[Stepford Smiler]] with a heart-motif coffeecup, a [[Cheshire Cat Grin|perpetually grinning]] and capricious judge, a man who loses track of time and runs away, a tea-drinking man who wears a big hat sometimes, and a scruffy, over-excitable March Hare type. A few of these connections may be [[Fan Wank]], however. Unlike most Alices, she was a [[Deadpan Snarker]] who swore under her breath.
* A 2008 series produced by [[HBO]] Latin America is named ''Alice''. The namesake protagonist is a 26-year old woman who goes from her small town to the big city to solve some inheritance affairs, and then she decides to stay and become a party girl, or something. It seems there is no actual Wonderland symbolism in the series, but since it's just beginning it's too soon to be sure.
* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Angela Petrelli's sister is named Alice. Her favorite book was ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''.
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* On ''[[Leverage]]'', Parker often uses the alias Alice White.
== [[Music]] ==
▲== Music ==
* Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick has always said that ''White Rabbit'' was intended as a slap toward parents who read their children stories such as ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (in which Alice uses several drug-like substances in order to change herself) and then wondered why their children grew up to do drugs. For Grace and others in the '60s, drugs were an inevitable part of mind-expanding and social experimentation.
* Alice Cooper. He even wears a big top hat, like the Mad Hatter.
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* [[Electronic Music|Electronic dance music]] event organizer Insomniac Events puts on several Wonderland-themed festivals: [[Lighter and Softer|Beyond Wonderland]], [[Darker and Edgier|Nocturnal Wonderland]], [[Halloween Episode|Escape from Wonderland]], [[New Year Has Come|White Wonderland]], and [[Pool Episode|Wet Wonderland]].
== [[New Media]] ==▼
▲== New Media ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130815041841/http://alex-in-wonderland.com/MainIndex/index.html Alex in Wonderland]
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
* In ''[[SLA Industries]]'' there is a drug that causes severe hallucinations that replace the
▲== Tabletop Games ==
▲* In SLA Industries there is a drug that causes severe hallucinations that replace the users normal senses so well that he thinks the hallucinations are the real world. The drugs name: Alice.
* ''[[JAGS Wonderland]]'' is all about the chaotic, infectious, hungry mess that Wonderland really is.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* In [[Cirque Du Soleil]]'s ''Mystere'', Alice is the unofficial name of the toy snail and [[Security Blanket|lovey]] that the baby girl loses at the beginning of the story, which results in a journey through a [[Magical Land]] to find it.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'', Alice is a [[The Ojou|spoiled]] little girl under the care of the [[Those Two Bad Guys|Baron in Black and the Count in Red]]. She's actually a powerful [[Dark Magical Girl]] who [[Came Back Wrong]] and the two nobles are [[Ars Goetia|Belial and Nebiros]], powerful demons who turn innocent people into undead to make sure they won't leave Alice. She returns frequently in many sequels and spin-offs, start since ''[[Shin Megami Tensei II]]'' as a [[Bonus Boss]].
** ''[[Persona (video game)|Persona]]'' series.
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* Reiji Arisu from ''[[Namco X Capcom]]'', somewhat unusual since he's '''male'''. He and his partner Xiaomu are the only members of Shinra organization the player actually sees. Their job is to deal with the evil Ouma organization, which always involves inter-dimensional travel. Both of them later appear as major characters in ''[[Super Robot Wars]] OG Saga [[Endless Frontier]]'', where almost (or perhaps literally) every character has some fairy-tale namesake, but Reiji's is the only one [[Lampshade Hanging]] by the protagonist.
* Alice, the mascot character of '''[[AliceSoft]]''.
* Whenever there's a hentai game with a [[Token
* ''[[American McGee's Alice]]''. The protagonist is implied to be the one who went down the rabbit hole in the first place, but considering she is in an insane asylum and literally battling through Wonderland to get her sanity back, who truly knows?
** The sequel, ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]'', does state that her last name is Liddell, in a sequence taking place ''outside'' Wonderland. So she's probably the real thing.
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* Lots in ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]''. In addition to the Looking Glass Clan VIP item, which takes you to Wonderland, there is also the Cheshire Bat, the Wild Hare (which carries a pocketwatch), a Mad Hatrack, a Frumious Bandersnatch, the Alice's Army card game (where the cards take the form similar to the soldiers from the disney film).
** This is because each month new special donation content is added, and this usually has a theme related to the month. March = March Hare = Alice in Wonderland is the usual March theme.
* Alice, the [[Token
* The ''[[BioShock 2]]'' ARG "There Is Something In The Sea" introduces us to Orrin Oscar [[Meaningful Name|Lutwidge]] ([[I Have Many Names|AKA]] [[Theme Naming|Orson Orville Liddel, Ogdred O. Lewis and RØd Killian Quain]]), an ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' obsessed polymath trickster who found out about the existence of Rapture and became possibly the only normal person from the surface to visit it and return to tell the tale.
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Web Original ==
* Alice Jones, the shy, introverted (and later in the game, decidedly creepy) ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' version 3 character.
* [[Anti-Villain]] of ''[[The Descendants]]'', Vorpal, has an ''Alice in Wonderland'' motif. On top of her name, her friend Mr. Voice calls her Alice because he either doesn't know her real name, or is avoiding saying it.
* Alice from ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130914230208/http://www.livingwithinsanity.com/index Living with Insanity]''.
* Alice Creek in ''[http://jackalyn.deviantart.com/art/Dark-Mirror-LLC-Chapter-1-162774609 Dark Mirror LLC]''.{{Dead link}}
* Alice of ''[[Alice and Kev]]''.
* Alice from ''[[Namesake (webcomic)|Namesake]].
* In the Josie stories of the [[Whateley Universe]], the Deuteragonist is [[Sdrawkcab Name|Ecila]] Mason. The beginning is very clearly the start of ''Alice in Wonderland'' with Ecila as Alice. By the time Josie starts her story, Ecila has been away from Earth for so long that she has lost most connections with humanity.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* Alice May from ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated]]''.
* Elisa Masa from ''[[Gargoyles]]''. Lampshaded in the pilot, when she, chased by mercenaries, runs into ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''-themed cafe.
* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'': Quite subtle, but do you think Odd Della Robbia's
* Prisoner 775 from ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'' is clearly a reference to the Cheshire Cat. It has the exact same pattern as seen in the Disney version, and is a chameleon that can blend perfectly with it's surroundings, except for its teeth. At one point, the teeth are all that you see of it.
* ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' has given us some thanks to Artemis's backstory: her {{spoiler|sister}} took her codename from the Cheshire Cat and Artemis herself has long blond hair.
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{{quote|'''Aang:''' I heard laughing and I saw some girl in a fancy dress.
'''Sokka:''' Well, there must be a tea party here and we just didn't get our invitations! }}
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]''; Jarvis Tech (aka the Mad Hatter) began his [[Start of Darkness]] as the result of an unhealthy crush on a co-worker named Alice Plesence, whose resemblance to the fictional Alice was uncanny. Combined with his own love for the book, he eventually seemed to confuse fiction from reality, and finally snapped.
* [[Hero of Another Story|Bunnix]] from ''[[Miraculous Ladybug]]''. The holder of the Rabbit Miraculous from the future, her rabbit-themed costume is mostly white, her Miraculous is a pocket-watch, and her [[Weapon of Choice]] is an umbrella. Even more of an indication is her special "Rabbit Hole" power, the ability to [[Teleport Spam]]. Pretty obvious which of Alice's friends was the inspiration.
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[[Category:Naming Conventions]]
[[Category:Fountain of Expies]]
▲[[Category:Alice Allusion]]
[[Category:Shout-Outs Index]]
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