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== The Mad Hatter IS Willy Wonka ==
* He found a way to build a factory that physically existed in Wonderland, but had a portal there in the form of a mysterious factory in Germany.
** But their personalities are completely different! The Hatter is a demented loon, while Wonka is an eccentric genius.
*** OR, he was Willy Wonka first, but when he lost his [[Nice Hat|awesome hat]] he couldn't find any more in the style he liked...SO he went into hat making, as well as continuing to make chocolate. The mercury started to affect his brain and he started to go wilder and wilder with his chocolate experiments, until he punched a hole between dimensions. Travelling through this sent him back in time (to the Victorian era), and made him younger (hence how he was able to be a younger version of himself in the flashback).
*** Also, Wonka is an eccentric genius; the Hatter is a demented loon AND an eccentric genius.
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== Alice's "Dreams" are drug induced ==
With all the crazy things she's dreamed of, they can't be just normal dreams of any sane person. No, you'd have to be on some serious crack for those sort of hallucinations. In the first book, when she goes to Wonderland, what really happened was Alice had been running through a field of poppies before she tripped. Being only a child during this time, she most likely wouldn't have known that opium came from poppies thus was contently breathing in the scent before it started to take effect. She fell over in the field and her "dream" of Wonderland was only her hallucinating from the opium. In the next book, we don't necessarily see what Alice had been doing before she was playing with her cats. And after the first opium incident, one can assume that by now she's most likely an addict on the stuff and regular goes off to indulge in opium when no one is looking. So before playing with her cats she was already highly drugged up and just waiting to collapse in a slumber of a drug induced state. This of course led to another string of hallucinations.
* However, children are perfectly capable of coming up with some of the most messed up and freakish ideas, especially in dreams, while being completely free of drugs.
* Also, I don't think simply breathing in poppies would get you that ridiculously high. She would have had to be smoking some really hard core stuff to have a trip like that. I'm still for the dream theory.
== The Duchess is the Queen of Hearts' mother. ==
I think in the Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner mentioned that their relationship may have been a parody of Queen Victoria's with her own mother. So, perhaps the reason for their hatred of each other was because the Duchess tried to control her daughter or tried to prevent her from taking over Wonderland?
== The Cheshire Cat is the only sane character there. Or is he? ==
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== Wonderland is Faery and all its inhabitants are [[The Fair Folk]] ==
Those of you who are hardcore Carrollians are probably aware of the fact that while a devout Christian, Dodgson also had an interest in the paranormal. Therefore, he may have heard about Faery and the Fair Folk (though this is unlikely, seeing what the Fairies- noute the spelling -in ''Sylvie and Bruno'' are supposed to be like). Anyway, you have to admit that the way some of the characters Alice encounters possess elements of a [[Blue and Orange Morality]]. And could cheshire-puss be a Cait Sidhe (Irish for "faery cat")? Also note the whole idea of time having stopped during the March Hare's tea-party. According to most legends, time stops in Tir na n'Og.
== Wonderland is our afterlife. ==
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== The White Knight lives. ==
After he was seemingly killed in the flashback, he retired from his place as champion and gave up his title due to the shame of losing {{spoiler|the vorpal sword}}. He then moved to a nearby area of the White Queen's domain as the appointed Gatekeeper, went quietly senile (possibly ''before'' his appointment as Gatekeeper), and designed a suit of armor made from pots and pans before having an escalating war with his next-door neighbor.
** [[Monty Python and
== The Queen of Hearts is the Red Queen's sister or half-sister, as well as the White Queen's. ==
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*** Really now? She's only 19, unless your saying she was a stripper WHEN SHE WAS 18 OR LESS. I don't even think that was legal back then. [[Captain Obvious|Or now.]]
**** No, just saying that [[Stylistic Suck|her version]] was a dance back then, though qualifying that it was only for certain contexts rather than general partying. She never learned how to breakdance.
*** Her version was exactly the same but just with the nonsensical leg movements. Or did the Victorians learn to move their legs and twist their ankles like that without [[The Wonderland|Under]][[World of Chaos|land]]?
== The White Queen and King of Hearts were having an affair. ==
You heard Her Majesty yourself, "[[Off with His Head|Had too,]] he would have left me." Plus Whitey can make anyone fall in love with her, including men, [[Even the Girls Want Her|woman,]] [[Cargo Ship|furniture,]]. Since Whitey stole her husband Red used the Jabberwocky to steal her kingdom.
* What a bitch<ref>The White Queen, that is</ref>.
** [[Umineko no Naku Koro ni|Furniture cannot love.]] [[Im A Real Boy|When they feel love, they are no longer furniture.]]
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== Not only is this not the first time Alice has been to Underland, it's not the second, either... and it won't be the last. ==
Alice's recurring dreams were actually repeated visits there, each time instigating a change in power from one Queen to the other. When Alice says that she'll come back and the Hatter protests that she won't remember, he is speaking from experience: she never does. The cycle simply repeats itself, varying mostly in the details and in how much farther Underland has fallen from the cleaner, prettier, more idyllic version that she visited the first time.
* OMG! That makes sense!
* My personal headcanon always was that the first book ''was'' Alice's first trip to Wonderland--but she went back many more times after that, and by the time ''Through The Looking Glass'' rolled around (six months later) she had gotten used to it, explaining why she's much more [[Genre Savvy]] and chill about being in a dream world by that time.
== On her trading voyages she will meet a girl with a similar experience to hers. ==
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== Alice can travel between worlds/dreams which is why "Underland" is falling apart. ==
The books actually happened: Alice traveled to Wonderland then later through the looking glass, unfortunately as she was a little girl and unaware of her powers she left travel "holes" in the fabric between worlds that allowed things to slip through (which is why she still had dreams about what was happening in the places without going there).
It was through these holes that The Red Queen arrived in Wonderland, an act that created further cracks inbetween the worlds that deepened the moment she defeated and merged with The Queen of Hearts (see previous WMG).
While the fusing of Red and Heart made the complete fixing of the worlds impossible, they would have still stayed two different places and been fairly okay had The Red Queen not, in a fit of paranoia, killed The Red King. As The King was the Dreamer of the Dream (as suggested in Through the Looking Glass) and the only one who could thus keep order his death caused the two worlds to ''smash'' together rearranging themselves into the "Underland" that Alice falls into in the film.
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