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A 2010 film by [[Tim Burton]], also released in 3D. Not an adaptation of either book, but rather a sort of sequel.
If you're looking for the 1951 Disney film, visit [[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|here]].
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== Tropes in this film include: ==
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** As well as the ''Dormouse'' of all people.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Johnny Depp offscreen [[Edward Scissorhands|cuts a new dress, seemingly without scissors]].
* [[Actual Pacifist]]: The White Queen - sort of. She's okay with people [[Combat
* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: In the books, the White Queen did not change much in appearance when she turned into a sheep. Here, she's played by [[Anne Hathaway]]. [[Helena Bonham Carter]]'s Red Queen, like other adaptations, is a [[Composite Character]] of the Red Queen and Queen of Hearts, who is a [[Gonk]], so she probably counts as well.
* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: The White Queen, Mirana of Marmoreal.
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* [[Butterfly of Death and Rebirth]]
* [[Cain and Abel]]: The Queens.
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: {{spoiler|Alice}} invokes [[Off
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: The film's version of the Dormouse comes across as a thinly disguised [[Narnia|Reepicheep]].
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: You'll be seeing that eye again. Also, the Hatter's various... [[Buffy-Speak|hatting...stuff]]. And the futterwacken.
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* [[Chronoscope]]: The scroll in that showed the history of Underland and then prophesied Alice's return and her slaying the Jabberwocky.
* [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience]]
* [[Combat
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: The Mad Hatter.
* [[Composite Character]]: The Red Queen comes off as a combination of the Red Queen from ''Through the Looking Glass'' and the Queen of Hearts. Though she's more The Queen Of Hearts.
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* [[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.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: The final battle presents the Knave as being this to the Hatter.
* [[Evil Redhead]]: The Red Queen.
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*** And then says she's going [[Eats Babies|have his tadpoles on toast...]]
*** And [[Overly Long Gag|THEN]] she uses a pig as a foot rest.
* [[Kick the Son of
* [[La Résistance]]
* [[Lady of War]]: The Dormouse.
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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 (
* [[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.
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* [[Magic Pants]]: Averted as Alice gets a new bigger/smaller dress to fit her every time she changes size. During the first time she grows, though, her dress expands to something more her size, but very tight-fitting.
* [[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
** 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 efffectively wearing pants in the final battle, the Hatter wearing a kilt might sort of fulfill the other part of her vision.
* [[Manipulative Bastard|Manipulative Bitch]]: The Red Queen thinks her sister the White Queen is this (and, to an extent, she's right).
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* [[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.
* [[Off
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: ''[[Christopher Lee]]'' as the Jabberwocky, who only manages to deliver a couple of brief yet powerful lines before {{spoiler|Alice slices his tongue off.}}
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Johnny Depp is... rather inconsistent about which part of the United Kingdom the Hatter is from (either because he's, well, mad, or... see [[What Do You Mean It's Not Political?]] below).
** Johnny Depp has a remarkably impressive record of [[Fake Brit|successfully imitating the British accent]] in films - making it more likely to be a clever manifestation of the Hatter's madness than anything else.
* [[Parental Favoritism]]: As noted below under [[The Unfavorite]], this is the Red Queen's [[Freudian Excuse]]; her parents (and, apparently, the rest of the whole kingdom) always favored her little sister. Notably averted with Alice's family, since she and her sister are very close and both love their parents very much.
* [[Perky Goth]]: The White Queen - Anne Hathaway is clearly [[Ham and Cheese|having a ball]] floating around like a melodramatic crazy girl. Hathaway's own description of her character is "a punk-rock [[Granola Girl|vegan pacifist]]." One movie critic summed her up as "[[The Addams Family
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Arguably. The Red Queen usurped her sister the White Queen and exiled her to the fairytale castle of Marmoreal. Bad, sure, but at least she let her little sister ''keep her head''. {{spoiler|Unlike the Red Queen's own husband, whose head is shown floating in the moat at Salazen Grum.}}
* [[Pimped-Out Dress]]: The Queens and their courtiers. Also, Alice gets several over the course of the movie to match her ever-changing size.
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** 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 (
** 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 [http://www.kino.com/press/germanexpressioinism/caligari_prisoner.jpg the shot of the falsely-imprisoned man] in ''[[
* [[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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* [[Upperclass Twit]]: Hamish, Alice's would-be fiancé, could be the poster child for this trope.
* [[Violent Glaswegian]]: The March Hare is always muttering to himself or shouting in Scottish accented gibberish, and he's certainly violent.
* [[Waif Fu]]: Alice, who looks like [[Firefly
{{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
* [[Who's
* [[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.
* [[Woman in White]]: The White Queen in all her pacifistic glory.
* [[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 ''[[
** Also it can be seen as [[
** 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.
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]:
** So it is written, so WILL it be done. It was prophesied that Alice {{spoiler|would slay the Jabberwocky}} before Alice was even given a proper understanding of what was going on when she reached Underland. She did ''try'' to [[Screw Destiny]] for a while, and even showed, eventually, that this was less [[Genre Blindness]] and more backbone ([[Off the Rails]], as it were). But even ''that'' turned out to be part of the big prediction. Reminds one a little of [[The Lord of the Rings
** There is an interesting zigzagging of this trope in the movie, what with Alice fleeing a forced marriage into Wonderland where she runs into another forced destiny, tries to screw it but still plays by it, carries out her destiny in Wonderland, but still manages to [[Screw Destiny]] in England!
*** Not quite - Despite the prophecy, Alice had the choice to say no at the end, same as the acceptance of marriage was ultimately her choice as well. For an admittedly rather short while before the big battle, it looked like she did/would go the [[Screw Destiny]] route. The point was that destinies are inevitable, but one can choose which destiny shall they follow.
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