History Main / DownTheRabbitHole

* ''Franchise/EverAfterHigh'' is connected to Wonderland, by the Well of Wonders. Briar Beauty uses it to [[spoiler: get rid of the real Storybook of Legends]].

* The [[ConceptAlbum concept album]] Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway by {{Music/Genesis}} begins with the protagonist, Rael, being chased by a [[AdvancingWallOfDoom "wall of death"]] that drops into Times Square. As the wall passes over him, he blacks out, and later re-awakens in a surreal world beneath New York City.

* The concept album Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway by {{Music/Genesis}} begins with the protagonist, Rael, being chased by a [[AdvancingWallOfDoom "wall of death"]] that drops into Times Square. As the wall passes over him, he blacks out, and later re-awakens in a surreal world beneath New York City.

* The concept album Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway by {{Music/Genesis}} begins with the protagonist, Rael, being chased by a "wall of death" that drops into Times Square. As the wall passes over him, he blacks out, and later re-awakens in a surreal world beneath New York City.

* The concept album Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway by {{Genesis}} begins with the protagonist, Rael, being chased by a "wall of death" that drops into Times Square. As the wall passes over him, he blacks out, and later re-awakens in a surreal world beneath New York City.

* The concept album Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway by [[Music/Genesis Genesis]] begins with the protagonist, Rael, being chased by a "wall of death" that drops into Times Square. As the wall passes over him, he blacks out, and later re-awakens in a surreal world beneath New York City.

* The concept album Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway by Music/Genesis begins with the protagonist, Rael, being chased by a "wall of death" that drops into Times Square. As the wall passes over him, he blacks out, and later re-awakens in a surreal world beneath New York City.

* Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway

* ''Webcomic/CheshireCrossing''. [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Alice Liddell]], after years of being sent to insane asylums because of her delusion, ends up at a new place, run by Nobel Prize winner Sir Ernest Rutherford, who has figured out that she ''isn't'' crazy. She meets two other girls: [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Dorothy Gale]] and [[PeterPan Wendy Darling]], who also have been assumed to be insane. Their nanny is a woman named Film/MaryPoppins who turns out to be a really powerful witch. HilarityEnsues.

* ''[[VideoGame/HarukanaruTokiNoNakaDe Harukanaru Toki no Naka de - Hachiyou Shou]]'' starts off a bit like ''Manga/InuYasha'', with the main character carried through an old well by the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragon-God]] into a [[TrappedInAnotherWorld world]] that looks like a version of [[JidaiGeki ancient Kyoto]] with the addition of [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever random monsters]], TheFourGods and [[{{Onmyodo}} various forms]] [[HermeticMagic of magic]].

* ''Film/TheMatrix'', KeanuReeves starring as our darling Alice. White bunnies mentioned.

* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' is about two brothers (and their pet frog) stuck in a FantasyAmericana setting called the Unknown, inhabited by {{Talking Animal}}s, witches and [[BigBad a demon]] who wants to [[BalefulPolymorph turn them into trees]] and [[YourSoulIsMine burn them in his lantern]]. Along the way, the older brother, teenage Wirt, gains the self-confidence to take responsibility for both his younger brother and his own life. Unlike many examples, this one starts InMediasRes, and we only belatedly discover ''how'' the pair got into the Unknown: [[spoiler:they're having a NearDeathExperience while drowning, with {{Fanon}} painting the Unknown as some sort of afterlife]].

* In ''HolidayWars'', the lead character Tegan Cassidy gets sucked into a world where the Holidays are personified as characters and are at war with each other. She first learns out about this other world in [[http://www.th3rdworld.com/web-comic/Holiday-Wars/episode/Holiday-Wars-Episode-34 this strip]].

* "White Rabbit" (not a cover of the above Jefferson Airplane song) by Egypt Central also references ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.

* Like the Tron films above, ''[[{{Tron20}} Tron 2.0]]'' does the same with the protagonists getting forcibly uploaded. But also given a {{Deconstruction}} as the antagonists found the rabbit hole before the protagonists and are using it to wreak havoc in the electronic "wonderland"

** In the non-traditional, Maurice Sendak-designed version from TheEighties, after the gigantic Mouse King is killed Clara and her Nutcracker pass through a cave of sorts formed by his now-empty coat. By the time they emerge, Clara (played a preteen thus far) has aged to adulthood and the Nutcracker has taken on the form of a handsome human.

Crawling through tunnels, descending underground, and getting stuck in confined spaces are all unusually common (though not required) in these works. This theme first appears as a physical passage between the mundane and the fantastic, a gateway which can not be crossed from elsewhere on the real world side. The symbolism involved is typically suggestive of the birth canal (i.e. the "womb of the earth" metaphor). Several of the genre's defining works then continue to put their protagonists back underground on the fantasy side. The presence of so many long, narrow tunnels in what are usually {{coming of age stor|y}}ies may therefore leave you wondering if FreudWasRight.

--> Eggsy: How deep does this go?

* Music/{{Oomph}}!'s music video for "Labyrinth" mostly references the usual Literature/AliceInWonderland tropes but throws in a [[{{Narnia}} wardrobe]], a labyrinth, and extra underground descent for good measure.

So you've got yourself a little story about a more than ordinary [[KidHero young girl]] who's [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor not fully satisfied]] with the [[RealLife status quo]]. Perhaps she yearns for a place where the GrassIsGreener, her parents dote on her every whim, or [[ChangelingFantasy she's a princess]]. She either visits or [[TrappedInAnotherWorld finds herself trapped]] in some sort of AlternateUniverse (potentially a DarkWorld) where [[{{Muppet}} bizarre]] [[PeopleInRubberSuits creatures]] and TheFairFolk are common inhabitants. The heroine will often encounter [[AndYouWereThere various parallels]] between this strange place and her former reality. She may face any number of ThresholdGuardians and undergo trials through which she [[AnAesop learns a lesson]] about [[ComingOfAgeStory herself or her place in the world]]. There will be enough strange goings on to make you wonder if [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs the creators were on something]], so expect NightmareFuel from even the more lighthearted variants. By the time she makes it home, many viewers will [[SchrodingersButterfly wonder]] if it was AllJustADream.

* ''Magic Kingdom for Sale -- SOLD!'', of the Literature/MagicKingdomOfLandover novels by Terry Brooks, takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to this trope. The protagonist learns about a magic kingdom via a real estate ad. Rather than a rabbit hole, the protagonist has to wander headlong into a train tunnel to get there.

* The Creator/{{Sid and Marty Krofft|Productions}} series ''Series/{{Lidsville}}'' involves the main character Mark (played by Butch Patrick of TheMunsters fame) falling down a giant magician's top hat (which is only seen during the ExpositoryThemeTune).
* There were heavy allusions to this in the ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'' episode titled 'Down The Rabbit Hole'. In that case, it was a variation involving going into the world of ''SecondLife''. There's even a white rabbit showing up as a guide when Mac enters the game to search for the killer-slash-avatar stealer.

* {{Oomph}}!'s music video for "Labyrinth" mostly references the usual Literature/AliceInWonderland tropes but throws in a [[{{Narnia}} wardrobe]], a labyrinth, and extra underground descent for good measure.

* ''Literature/UnLunDun'' by ChinaMieville. Notable in that there seem to be many different ways to get to and from there (turning a handle, climbing a bookcase, crossing a bridge), and that due to it being fairly easy as long as you know roughly what to do, problems from one world can cross to the other if the wrong people are involved. Needless to say, in the story, they are.

* ''KiddVideo'' involves a (live action) rock band who is forcibly transported to the "Flip Side" (a 2D animated world) through a mirror in a warehouse where the band was rehearsing, thanks to the BigBad Master Blaster. Each episode focused mainly on the group trying to get back to their world, with their FairyCompanion Glitter helping along the way, but like many shows made at the time (early-mid 1980s), there was no proper resolution to the story.

* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'': Sarah gets trapped in an oubliette which is but a part of the long confined path that is the Labyrinth itself, and then you have DavidBowie crooning about the "Underground"...

** The SpinOffspring sequel, ''Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So'', by Ian Stewart, is even closer to the trope, since its protagonist is A. Square's independently-minded granddaughter, [[UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground Victoria Line]]. (A. Square himself, of course, is given the first name of [[EastEnders Albert]]).