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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.
A 2010 film by [[Tim Burton]], also released in 3D. Not an adaptation of [[Alice in Wonderland|either book]], but rather a sort of sequel.
If you're looking for the 1951 Disney film, visit [[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|here]].
{{tropelist}}
* [[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.}}
* [[Abnormal Limb Rotation Range]]: Mad Hatter {{spoiler|'s dance after Alice killed the Jabberwock.}}
* [[Action Girl]]: Alice becomes this in the final battle.
** As well as the ''Dormouse'' of all people.
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* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: The Hare, in general.
* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: After {{spoiler|Alice kills the Jabberwocky, the Red Queen's crown floats over to land on the White Queen's head (though, of course, the Cheshire Cat was holding it).}}
* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Alice falls down a rabbit hole, gets shrunk, enlarged and stuffed in a teapot, then fights the Jabberwocky...all without a curl on her head getting tangled
* [[Berserk Button]]: The Hatter has a few. It's really not a good idea to do anything that could be perceived by him to be a threat against either Alice or the White Queen...and don't mention the Horunvendush Day. Just don't.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Alice and the White Queen. The Hatter also lets slip a [[Double Entendre]], though not of the usual sort:
{{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.
* [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]: The Red Queen and the Jabberwocky.
* [[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"?
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* [[Broken Aesop]]: All the best people are mad, and it doesn't matter what others think. But this message is then thrown out the window when Alice declares that her crazy aunt needs to seek help for her overactive imagination.
** As said in [[Arbitrary Skepticism]], the movie shows that there is a line between mad/imaginative and delusional. Her aunt is clearly delusional/lonely/heartbroken and her belief in the prince is clearly a spoof of a fairy tale. Alice only wanted to help her aunt get over it, not say she should forget the dream. At no point did Alice say she should "forget imagination."
** The [[Arranged Marriage]] plot at the beginning of the film sets up the
*** She didn't fight the Jabberwock [[Because Destiny Says So]]. She fought the Jabberwock because she became the [[Determinator]].
*** The true Aesop in both cases is "When faced with an unpleasant reality, fight, not stick
* [[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]]
* [[Butterfly of Transformation]]: Absolem, the caterpillar is mainly seen as a symbolic function...Sorta. During the ending, Alice was transformed by her Wonderland experiences and he appears on her shoulder as a butterfly and [[Fly At the Camera Ending|flying at the camera]].
* [[Cain and Abel]]: The Queens.
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: {{spoiler|Alice}} invokes [[Off with His Head]] by name. Doubles as a [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]].
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* [[The Chosen One]]: Alice, of course.
* [[The Chosen Zero]]: The denizens of Underland aren't sure that Alice is the prophesied champion, and the Dormouse is especially prone to proclaiming, "She's the wrong Alice!"
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: [[Captain Obvious|The Mad Hatter and March Hare]]. Alice herself is this as far as other people in the real world are concerned.▼
* [[Chronoscope]]: The scroll in that showed the history of Underland and then prophesied Alice's return and her slaying the Jabberwocky.
▲* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: [[Captain Obvious|The Mad Hatter and March Hare]]. Alice herself is this as far as other people in the real world are concerned.
* [[
* [[Combat by Champion]]
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: The Mad Hatter.
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* [[Crap Saccharine World]]
* [[Creative Closing Credits]]: the film had a very pretty scene for the cast list and [[Avril Lavigne]]'s song that showed the clouds shifting, mushrooms growing (and glowing) and the bare [[Goth Spirals]] branches blooming to show that {{spoiler|Underland is healing after the Red Queen's defeat}}. In the 3D version, this is windowboxed, with the growing fauna spilling out onto the blank areas of the screen, giving the impression that the screen is a window to Underland. This awesome sequence can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHi1gifyLdU here].
* [[Creepy Twins]]: Subverted with Dee and Dum, who are more [[The Woobie|woobie]] then anything else.▼
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: The Hatter, so very much.
** Johnny Depp seems to have a particular talent for this trope.
* [[Cruel Mercy]]: The White Queen, proving that [[Light Is Not Good|Light is not always Good]].
▲* [[Creepy Twins]]: Subverted with Dee and Dum, who are more [[The Woobie|woobie]] then anything else.
* [[Curtain Clothing]]: When Alice grows out of her dress in the Red Queen's garden the Queen demands she be given new clothes and tells her servants to "Use the curtains if you have to." When we later see her clothed, she has a belt that looks suspiciously like a tie for a curtain, hinting that it's exactly what they did.
* [[Cute and Psycho]]: The White Queen is strongly hinted to be this.
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* [[Deathbringer the Adorable]]: As it turns out, {{spoiler|the Bandersnatch.}}
* [[Deceased Parents Are the Best]]: Alice's deceased father, Charles Kingsleigh, while he was alive, would comfort Alice after having a nightmare and encourage her unconventional thought patterns. Alice would eventually follow in her father's footsteps and take up his old business ventures.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: While the exact date of the movie is unclear, based on the original work and setting it's probably the latter quarter of the 19th century. At which point the Qing and British Empires make up the largest economies on earth, with something like 1/2 the world's population between them, and centuries of strong trade under their belt. They'd even fought wars over, say, Britain's right to continue to sell drugs there, and while the Qing dynasty put heavy trade barriers in place, it wasn't Shogunate Japan; there was plenty of outside trade. {{spoiler|Meaning Alice's daring plot to expand trade into China was somewhat less revolutionary than a modern-day character suggesting switching a fleet's ships to steam engine}}. It may be that Alice's Earth is not our own. It's really the only way to deal with all the historical inaccuracies, as well as the many social ones (
* [[Digital Head Swap]]: Tweedledee and Tweedledum have actor's heads on digital bodies. As well, the Red Queen's head is greatly enlarged.
* [[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.
* [[The Dragon]]: The Red Queen has
* [[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.
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* [[Evil Redhead]]: The Red Queen.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Averted with the White Queen's voice being deeper (and smoother) than the Red Queen's tyrannical shriek.
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: The Knave of Hearts. Interestingly, his patch is often red when in the Queen's presence, but black at any other moment.▼
* [[Eye Scream]]:
** [[Took a Level
** {{spoiler|The Hatter}} also gets one in on {{spoiler|the Knave}} during the final battle. However, it doesn't seem to affect {{spoiler|the Knave}} much afterward.
** ''Alice In Wonderland'', as a movie, has an abundance of eye tropes. Nearly every character, including Alice, has exaggerated or unique eyes. Even the Dormouse gets a close up of its eyes. And the Hatter's eyes are part of a very subtle scene transition.
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** While it isn't a direct use of this trope, one of the Hatter's pupils is visibly more dilated than the other--a sign of ''severe'' head trauma. A concussion would certainly explain his erratic emotions and babbling. [[Word of God]] has confirmed this.
*** That, and his trade is slowly killing him thanks to ''mercury vapor''.
▲* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: The Knave of Hearts. Interestingly, his patch is often red when in the Queen's presence, but black at any other moment.
* [[Faceless Goons]]: Both the Red and White soldiers.
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: The White Queen {{spoiler|decrees that the Red Queen is to be ignored until the end of time, banished to outer Underland with the Knave of Hearts as her only companion}}. Considering that {{spoiler|the only reason anyone -- ''including even faceless card [[Mooks]]'' -- hung around the Red Queen was fear of Jabberwocky}}, it's a clear case of [[Laser-Guided Karma]].
**
{{quote|'''Stayne:''' Your majesty, please kill me!
'''Mirana:''' But I do not owe you a kindness.
* [[Feathered Fiend]]: The Jub-Jub Bird.
* [[The Fettered]]: The White 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.
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]]: Alice Kingsleigh
** [[The Smart Guy]]: The White Queen, The Cheshire Cat, and The Caterpillar
** [[The Big Guy]]: Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum, and The Bandersnatch
** [[The Chick]]: The White Rabbit, The March Hare, and The Dormouse
** [[Team Pet]]: Bayard the Bloodhound
* [[Five-Bad Band]]:
** [[Big Bad]]/[[Dark Chick]]—Red Queen
** [[The Dragon]]/[[Dragon-in-Chief]]/[[The Evil Genius]]—Knave of Hearts
** [[The Brute]]—The Jabberwocky
** [[Team Pet]]—Jubjub Bird
* [[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.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "I shall futterwacken... ''vigorously''."
** A mild example, various characters referring to Red Queen as "Bloody big head".
** The Knave of Hearts is implied to be a macrophile.
*** As if a man that tall would not prefer big women!
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* [[Gilded Cage]]: The White Queen is stuck in her palace after the Red Queen's takeover.
* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Played straight with the Red Queen, averted with the White.
* [[Good Is Impotent]]: While this is what often happens to [[Actual Pacifist|Actual Pacifists]] and [[Friend to All Living Things|Friends to All Living Things]] in [[Grimmification|Grimmified]] versions of fairy tales, both the White Queen and Alice avert this completely. The White Queen is a genuinely decent (if creepy) person, but if she tries to give you a [[Last Second Chance]], '''you better take it'''. Otherwise, see [[Fate Worse Than Death]] above. And Alice [[Took a Level
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: The White Queen demonstrates this in the end.
* [[Goth Spirals]]: ''Whole forests'' of 'em! Well it ''is'' Tim Burton.
* [[Granola Girl]]: [[Played for Laughs]] with The White Queen.
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Alice.▼
* [[Hair-Raising Hare]]: The March Hare is ragged, twitchy, spouts [[Madness Mantra|Madness Mantras]], and likes to throw things. "YOU'RE LATE FOR TEA!" *flings teacup*
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: The Red Queen.
▲* [[Hair of Gold]]: Alice.
* [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]: Several of the [[Talking Animal|Talking Animals]], including the White Rabbit and the frogs in the Red Queen's court. Somewhat justified, because the Red Queen gives her servants red garments or markings.
** Lampshaded when the White Rabbit speaks deprecatingly of the animals in the real world that run around naked and [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|"shukrn" in public]].
* [[Happy Dance]]: The futterwacken, the Mad Hatter's oft-mentioned dance of joy, finally seen after the Red Queen's defeat.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|The Bandersnatch}} once {{spoiler|Alice gives its eye back.}}
* [[Helmets Are Hardly Heroic]]: Well after all, what the point of sturdy plate
* [[Her Heart Will Go On]]: If you picked up on on the film's "romantic subtext", {{spoiler|Alice and Hatter get this. No, he doesn't die, but the look on his face as Alice's chooses to leave send him into near [[The Woobie|Woobie]] territory}}. It doesn't hurt that {{spoiler|Alice said she knew the way back, implying that they could easily meet again someday.}}
* [[Heroic Albino]]: The White Queen, although her big brown eyes and dark eyebrows make her [[Looks Like Cesare|look a little like Cesare]].
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* [[Large Ham]]: Johnny Depp and [[Helena Bonham Carter]]. And it's AWESOME.
** However, the Hatter doesn't stand out nearly as much as the Red Queen, who completely steals every scene she's in.
* [[Licensed Game]]: [[Alice in Wonderland (2010 video game)|Received a video game
* [[Lickspittle]]: The Red Queen's court. The Mad Hatter actually ''calls'' them this.
* [[Light Is Good]]: White is associated with the good guys, namely the forces of the White Queen.
** [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Chesire. Also, at the end,
* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: According to an interview with [[Johnny Depp]], this is how he views the Hatter's relationship with Alice. ...
* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]: Alice picks up the name "Um of Umbrage" after growing fifteen feet tall at the Red Castle to fool the Red Queen. Counts as Line of Sight because the White Rabbit uttered it in hesitation and the Red Queen took it as an actual name. Hilariously lampshaded later in the movie:
{{quote|'''Red Queen:''' Hello, Um.}}
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* [[Maiden Aunt]]: Alice's, played by Frances De La Tour. Apparently thinks she's [[wikipedia:Wallis, Duchess of Windsor|Wallis Simpson]]. ("I'm waiting for my fiance. He's a prince, but alas, he cannot marry me unless he renounces his throne.") {{spoiler|When Alice returns, she tells her aunt she has to let go of her fantasy.}}
* [[Man in a Kilt]]: The Hatter wears one for the final battle. [[Rule of Cool|No explanation is offered]], other than the Hatter's occasional Scottish-ness.
** Actually, there may be some sort of explanation: Near the beginning of the movie, when Alice dances with her would-be fiance she tells him that she had a vision of women wearing pants and men wearing dresses (or something to that effect). Since she is
* [[Manipulative Bastard|Manipulative Bitch]]: The Red Queen thinks her sister the White Queen is this (and, to an extent, she's right).
{{quote|'''Red Queen:''' Mirana can make anyone fall in love with her. Men... [[Even the Girls Want Her|Women...]] [[Friend to All Living Things|Animals...]] Even [[Cargo Ship|the furniture]]."<ref> Although note that this might be less weird than it sounds, considering the Red Queen keeps "furniture" that includes living frogs holding up tabletops.</ref
(later) "I know what you're doing. You think you can blink those pretty little eyes and I'll melt, just like Mommy and Daddy did. ''It is ''my'' crown! I am the eldest!''
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
** The Knave's real name is Stayne (Stain), and he certainly is one on Underland.
** The Red Queen's real name is Iracebeth, a play on the word ''irascible'', which she very much is. Contrast that with her sister -- the White Queen's real name is Mirana, which is [http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Mirana a variant of Mira], which means "peace
*** Mirana is also very close to 'Miranda', which in Latin means '(she who is) worthy of admiration' or 'she who must be wondered at' - which is apt considering most people's response to her.
*** Iracebeth [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|also sounds a lot like]] [[wikipedia:Erzebet Bathory|Erzebet]].
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{{quote|'''Cheshire Cat:''' What happened that day was not my fault.}}
** He was most likely referring to the day The Red Queen's Jabberwocky attacked.
* [[Not So Different]]:
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: The Hatter plays up his insanity to the Knave of Hearts, but is secretly [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|quite the badass]]. The March Hare, however, definitely isn't pretending.
* [[Of Corset Hurts]]: Alice refuses to wear her corset to show how free spirited she is, saying how it's an item of female restriction.
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{{quote|'''[[Helena Bonham Carter]]:''' The Red Queen is just like a toddler, because she’s got a big head and she’s a tyrant. Toddlers have no sympathy for any living creature. That’s our toddler, Nell just bosses us around with no please or thank yous. It’s ‘Mummy, come here’, ‘Mummy, carry me’. It’s all about her, she never considers us.}}
* [[Public Domain Character]]: But of course.
▲* [[Redheaded Hero]]: The Hatter.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: The Hatter's eyes go from neon-green to fiery-red when he gets angry.
** [[Green Eyes]]: They become a deeper green when he's happy.
* [[Redheaded Hero]]: The Hatter.
* [[Scenery Porn]] and [[Scenery Gorn]]: It ''is'' a [[Tim Burton]] movie, after all. A visual feast is practically expected. Even the bombed-out ruins of the White Queen's party look impressive.
* [[The Seven Basic Plots]]: Voyage and Return. Yep, painfully as obvious as [[Hero's Journey|Alice's adventure]], but inverted at the end when {{spoiler|Alice leaves Wonderland but vows to return, and once in her own world sails off to China, implying she has one more voyage before coming home.}}
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** Alice's father's name is Charles; Lewis Carroll's real name was Charles Dodgeson.
** Charles Kingsley, author of ''The Water Babies'', was another famous Victorian children's author whose work influenced Lewis Carroll.
** The twisted tree near the entry door to Wonderland is very similar to the one in ''[[Sleepy Hollow (Film)|Sleepy Hollow]]''.
** The Hatter using {{spoiler|scissors to make Alice a new dress in record time and as a weapon to thwart the Knave's attempt on the Red Queen's life}} may be a reference to ''Edward Scissorhands''.
*** Or, y'know, it might just be a craftsman's skill with his tools of trade...
** While the Gryphon from the books is absent as a character in the events of the film, [http://aliceinwonderland.wikia.com/wiki/File:2010-jabberwock-gryphon.jpg he is referred to in the Red Queen's castle.] The [http://aliceinwonderland.wikia.com/wiki/File:Knaveofhearts.jpg Mock Turtle] and Walrus also appear as portraits.
** The Jabberwocky acting as the Red Queen's Sentinel, similarly to ''[[American McGee's Alice]]''.
** The Knave's comment to the Red Queen, "Is it not better to be feared than loved?" is in fact a shout out to Macchiavelli's ''[[The Prince]]''.
** Lady Ascot (Hamish's mother) griping about how the gardeners planted white roses when she specifically requested red, and Alice's response that she could paint the roses red, is a shout out to the Queen of Hearts in the Disney adaptation, as well as to other 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]].
** The first shot of the Hatter sitting in his cell is a visual allusion to [https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195424/http://www.kino.com/press/germanexpressioinism/caligari_prisoner.jpg the shot of the falsely-imprisoned man] in ''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]''.
* [[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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* [[Split Personality]]: The Hatter seems to have one - he lapses into a Scottish brogue and his eyes even change color as an indicator on occasion. [[All There in the Manual|Supplemental material]] explains that the brogue is common to those who speak Outlandish, the language from the portion of Underland which includes the Hatter's home village of Witzend.
* [[Statuesque Stunner]]: 9-foot-tall Alice. Well, to the Knave of Hearts, anyway.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: The White Queen, when she's not pretending to be a [[Purity Sue]].▼
* [[Stealth Pun]]: If you listen to the White Queen condemn her sister, you will notice that the Red Queen is 'Iracebeth of Crims'. That is, she's [[Don't Explain the Joke|crimson]].
** Crims is the region of Underland where Iracebeth's castle, Salazen Grum, is located. The origin of the name probably ''is'' a reflection of the color, though.
▲* [[Stepford Smiler]]: The White Queen, when she's not pretending to be a [[Purity Sue]].
* [[Take That]]: {{spoiler|Alice's dance near the end of the movie; ''GASP! She's not wearing stockings!'' It doubles as a [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]].}}
* [[Talking Animal|Talking Animals]]: Non-talking (well, not on camera anyway) animals are the aforementioned "furniture".
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* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: The Dormouse again. After the final battle, {{spoiler|the Hatter throws his scissors right into the Knave's wrist, just as he is about to murder the Red Queen (to whom he was forcibly handcuffed [[Cruel Mercy|as punishment]]).}}
* [[Tome of Prophecy]]: The Oraculum.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Trickster Archetype]]: The Cheshire Cat. In true Trickster fashion, it's even implied this whole mess started because of him.
* [[Troubled Backstory Flashback]]: The Hatter.
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* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Alice and the Mad Hatter, although this is a strange example because they're probably not intended to give off such vibes to viewers, and it's not quite [[Will They or Won't They?]] because they never really hint at anything too obviously. The original script, however, included two passionate kisses between them, and there is a rumor that one of them was actually filmed.
{{quote|'''The Mad Hatter''', ''to 9-foot-tall Alice:'' Why is it you're always too small, or too tall?
"You're terribly late, you know...''naughty''."
** Alice and the White Queen have this to some people, though YMMV.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]:
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{{quote|[[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|Off with your head!]]}}
* [[Weird Moon]]: Once the Cheshire Cat gets hold of it.
▲* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: The White Queen.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?|What Happened to the Dodo?]]: After the croquet game, the Dodo just disappears. There is no mention of him, he doesn't even show up during the final battle!!
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: The White Queen.
* [[Who's on First?]] : The Knave has some trouble with the name "Um".
* [[Wild Mass Guessing]]: Depp's take on the Mad Hatter is a historical one: [[wikipedia:Mad hatter disease|Hatters went mad]] due to working with mercury (which can turn hair and eyes red while bleaching skin and cause anxiety, hallucinations and possibly schizophrenia), and the Mad Hatter has had mercury poisoning for a ''very'' long time. He also went with the Edgar Allan Poe angle to the Raven/writing desk riddle.
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* [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask]]: The White Queen spends most of her time looking elegant and floating around waving her arms in the air, but during her first appearance, she asks her courtiers to excuse her for a moment, and the second they leave, she drops her arms, picks up her skirts and runs to greet Bayard in a gush of emotion. She's making use of Obfuscating Weirdness.
* [[X Meets Y]]: This movie has been awkwardly compared to ''[[Labyrinth]]'', a teenage girl ventures to a dream land in which serves as a metaphorical journey from sheltered girl into an experienced young lady, guided/challenged by a parental/mentor figure that gives off WAY too much squicky subtext, with clues from the "real world" the dream land is little more than in her head, and the ''[[Chronicles of Narnia]]'' film: a human girl is transported to a magical land inhabited by talking animals where a false ruler - an evil queen has taken over, where she learns she is arbitrarily the "Chosen One" who will defeat the evil queen and restore a benevolent ruler to the magical land.
** Also it can be seen as ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' meets ''[[Return to Oz]]''.
** Or, face it, a lot of kids' daydreams of being kidnapped to a fun place to be a hero.
* [[Yes-Man|Yes Men]]: The Red Queen's courtiers.
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