Alice in Wonderland (2010 film): Difference between revisions

There's only a few problems: Alice thinks this is [[All Just a Dream|all a dream]], and she's not prepared to slay anything.

 

 

If you're looking for the 1951 Disney film, visit [[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|here]].

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* [[0% Approval Rating]]: The Red Queen. As the Knave of Hearts comments to her, and she later agrees, "It's better to be feared than to be loved." {{spoiler|The only reason anybody followed her is because of her big dragon. After the thing is dead, they immediately turn on her. Meaning she never learned the other warning of ''[[The Prince]]'', "Avoid being hated." The White Queen has clearly read the book.}}

{{quote|'''Hatter:''' (to the Red Queen) I've been contemplating "m" words lately. (spouts off a few [[Stealth Insult]] "M"-words, then spots Alice and is startled) M... ''malice''...}}

* [[BFS]]: The Hatter wields a claymore in the final battle. He uses it as a walking stick first.

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: "I tower over ''everyone'' in Umbrage."

** Wait... could someone explain how that's a bilingual bonus? Is it because of the word "tower"?

* [[Broken Bird]]: The Hatter. As it gets explained to Alice via flashback (and is made more explicitly clear in supplemental material), his entire family was killed the day the Jabberwock assaulted Witzend and the White Queen lost her crown. The Hatter himself only survived the invasion because he rushed to get the White Queen to safety; he returned to the scene afterward and found everything burning and everyone dead. This is one of the two main reasons for his madness, the other being mercury poisoning (a common malady for Victorian milliners).

* [[Butterfly of Death and Rebirth]]

* [[Cain and Abel]]: The Queens.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: {{spoiler|Alice}} invokes [[Off with His Head]] by name. Doubles as a [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]].

* [[The Ditz]]: The White Queen was written this way in the original script; she was totally oblivious to the fact that Alice was the champion. Between the improvements to her character and the removal of the more blatant Alice/Hatter shipping, most viewers are grateful for the subsequent rewrites.

* [[Down the Rabbit Hole]]: Duh.

* [[Dull Surprise]]: Pretty much all Alice's dialogue is delivered in a flat manner - regardless of what's actually happening at the time. Possibly deliberate. She ''is'' a young [[Stiff Upper Lip|British lady]] who believes for most of the film that it is [[All Just a Dream]], to contrast with her surroundings.

* [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome]]: The Red Queen.

* [[Fingore]]: "Buttered fingers!"

* [[Fisher King]]: "Underland" was definitely brighter under the White Queen compared to its look under the Red Queen, and when the latter is defeated, the sky immediately gets a bit brighter. Also, watch how the scenery changes during the credits.

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: The White Queen, whose "vows" include not harming any living creature. Of course, the vows say nothing about getting other people to do the harming for her.

* [[Gender Flip]]: The Dormouse, who's usually male in most adaptations.

** There seem to be a few shout-outs to [[Avatar (film)|that other Big Effin' 3-D CGI movie]] that came out only a few months before, such as the floating seed pods, the main character growing and shrinking, being called stupid and having to lead an army to fight a dragon with a dangerous creature they befriended, but it's probably ''that'' movie referencing ''this'' one's story plus another [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|big effin' movie trilogy's]] tropes.

** The scene where the Jabberwock appears bears a striking resemblance to [[Fantasia|Chernabog emerging from the mountain]].

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Alice: "Enough chatting!" {{spoiler|She slices off the Jabberwock's tongue.}}

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: The Red Queen and the White Queen.

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